For Wanda Mata, the news Friday that Gov. Tom Wolf had halted executions under Pennsylvania's death penalty brought a new flood of pain over her brother's murder. Only three weeks ago, the birth of Carlos Juarbe's first grandchild forced Mata to again confront her family's loss and struggle to reconcile the fact that his killer, Junius Burno, is still alive in a Pennsylvania prison cell. Wolf's announcement of a moratorium on the death penalty, calling the current system of capital punishment "error-prone, expensive and anything but infallible," seemed to put the resolution Mata has sought for the last 11 years even further out of reach. "If someone...

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